In 2016, the Puy du Fou will launch a grand novelty “Le Dernier Panache,” a major and unique creation ... Paid shuttles (€14 one way, €22 roundtrip) make the link between the Angers/Parc du Puy du Fou Station …

steak and chips in Le Relais Gaulois cost a very reasonable £6.50. A pity, though, that we couldn't find wild boar – the Gauls' favourite dish, if you recall – on the menu. Parc Asterix (0033 3 4462 3131, www.parcasterix.fr; most of the website is in ...

Which is why, a couple of years later, I was so attracted to Parc Asterix. Located 22 miles north of Paris, Parc Asterix is the European alternative to EuroDisney. With amusements scattered among the trees of a protected forest, this park's theme comes ...

French cartoonist and author Albert Uderzo poses next to a cardboard cut-out of Asterix and Obelix characters. The 36th book in the Asterix series “Le Papyrus de Cesar ... for a popular theme park, Parc Asterix, outside Paris. It has always been ...

The series has been adapted into live-action films and is the inspiration for a popular theme park, Parc Asterix, outside Paris. It has always been a hugely intimate affair and Uderzo, now 88, took over the writing after Goscinny died in 1977. He quit ...

And while Parc Asterix in France ticks plenty of the traditional boxes ... meant we had to stay wrapped up warm, but that didn’t stop Ollie loving the “Le Petit Train”, Emma asking to go back the slightly quicker “La Ronde des Rondins” or ...

Its plan is to assiduously market its Frenchness. With two of the country's leading news magazines, Le Point and L'Express, dedicating cover articles to the Disney threat to French culture, Parc Asterix reckons this is a trump card. Sylvie Uderzo ...

The series has been adapted into four live-action films and is the inspiration for a popular theme park, Parc Asterix ... Belgium and Germany. "Asterix is back!" France's Le Figaro screamed on the front of its arts section, hailing the new instalment ...

I'm pretty excited that the titular character Asterix the Gaul is getting the 3D animation treatment. This follows on the heels of 3D animated Tintin before it (a 2011 project of Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson). This movie is called Asterix ...